Saturday, December 31, 2016

New England, and Massachusetts in particular, was supplying the French as General James Wolfe was enroute to the Plains of Abraham in 1759. In 1814 and the United States at war with the British, New England’s Federalist Party refused troops to repel the enemy, contemplated a separate peace with England, and came near secession from the Union in the December, 1814 Hartford Convention.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

Jefferson Reflects Upon Massachusetts

“Oh Massachusetts! How I have lamented the degradation of your apostasy!

Massachusetts, with whom I went with pride in 1776, whose vote was my vote on every public question, and whose principles were then the standard of whatever was free or fearless. But she was then under the counsels of the two Adams’; while Strong, her present leader, was promoting petitions for submission to British power and British usurpation.

But should the State, once more, buckle on her republican harness, we shall receive her again as a sister, and recollect her wanderings among the crimes only of the parricide [Federal] party, which would have basely sold what their fathers so bravely won from the same enemy. Let us look forward, then, to the act of repentance, which, by dismissing her venal traitors, shall be the signal of return to the bosom, and to the principles of her brethren; and, if her late humiliation can just give her modesty enough to suppose that her Southern brethren are somewhat on par with her in wisdom, in patriotism, in bravery, and even in honesty, although not in psalm-singing, she will more justly estimate her own relative momentum in the Union.

With her ancient principles, she would really be great, if she did not think herself the whole.”

A Marshall County man has been charged for allegedly abusing a child, Albertville police said.

Diego Sebastian, 27, of Albertville, became a suspect after officers
responded to a call from the Marshall South Medical Center Emergency
Department on Wednesday about a 3-year-old girl with injuries. Police
said the girl is related to Sebastian. The child was transferred to
Children's Hospital in Birmingham with life-threatening injuries, police
said.

Enough evidence was collected during a joint investigation involving
the police department and the Marshall County Department of Human
Resources to obtain a warrant for Sebastian. He was charged with
aggravated child abuse Friday and was booked into Marshall County Jail
on a $250,000 bond.

The pathetic attempts to undo Donald Trump’s victory are signs of desperation, not strength, in the Deep State.

The post World War II consensus held that the USSR’s long-term goal
was world domination. That assessment solidified after the Soviets
detonated an atomic bomb in 1949. A nuclear arms race, a space race,
maintenance of a globe-spanning military, political, and economic
confederation, and a huge expansion of the size and power of the
military and intelligence complex were justified by the Soviet, and
later, the Red Chinese threats. Countering those threats led the US to
use many of the same amoral tactics that it deplored when used by its
enemies: espionage, subversion, bribery, repression, assassination,
regime change, and direct and proxy warfare.

Scorning principles of limited government, non-intervention in other
nations’ affairs, and individual rights, the Deep State embraced the
anti-freedom mindset of its purported enemies, not just towards those
enemies, but toward allies and the American people. The Deep State
gradually assumed control of the government and elected officials were
expected to adhere to its policies and promote its propaganda. Only John
F. Kennedy directly challenged it, firing CIA Director Allen Dulles
after the Bay of Pigs disaster. He was assassinated, and whether or not
CIA involvement is ever conclusively proven, the allegations have been
useful to the agency, keeping politicians in line. The Deep State also
co-opted the media, keeping it in line with a combination of fear and
favor.

In the three years since a preliminary nuclear deal was struck with
Iran, Tehran has received more than $10 billion in sanctions relief from
around the world in the form of cash and gold, according to current and
former U.S. officials.

The large shipments of gold and cash, from oil funds unfrozen in
numerous countries, represent the kind of financial relief that made
Iran's leaders eager to complete the international nuclear accord.

Some
of the cash and gold went to Iran while the U.S. and other world powers
negotiated with Tehran on a final nuclear deal. More shipments took
place after final deal went into effect last January.

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin as “very smart” for not retaliating against a new round of U.S. sanctions against the former Cold War foe.

“Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very smart!” tweeted Mr. Trump, who weathered unrelenting criticism during the campaign for heaping praise on Mr. Putin.

The tweet suggested that Mr. Trump, who made his deal-making skills a chief argument for his presidential run, will be open to negotiating with Russia over the status of the sanctions once he takes office Jan. 20.

The House Freedom Caucus, a conservative faction of Republicans in
the House, has issued a 23-page list identifying 200 rules and
regulations it wants to see gutted in a Donald Trump administration, and
nutrition is a key target. Among the items identified: the FDA’s update
to the Nutrition Facts panel and updated nutrition standards for school
meals, both priorities championed by first lady Michelle Obama.

“The regulations have proven to be burdensome and unworkable for
schools to implement,” the document says of the standards that mandate
more fruits and vegetables and whole grains while cutting back on salt,
sugar and fat. “Schools are throwing food away that students are not
eating.” On the flip side, USDA maintains that schools are in near
universal compliance, and health advocates argue that kids have largely
adjusted to the changes.

A Mexican man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus
that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily
removed from the U.S. another nine times since 2003, records obtained
by The Associated Press show.

Three U.S. Republican senators —
including Kansas' Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts — demanded this month that
the Department of Homeland Security provide immigration records for
38-year-old Tomas Martinez-Maldonado, who is charged with a felony in
the alleged Sept. 27 attack aboard a bus in Geary County. He is being
held in the Geary County jail in Junction City, which is about 120 miles
west of Kansas City.

U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, from Iowa and
chairman of the judiciary committee, co-signed a Dec. 9 letter with
Moran and Roberts to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, calling it
"an extremely disturbing case" and questioning how Martinez-Maldonado
was able to re-enter and remain in the country.

Epshteyn said the participants represent “the truly best of America.”
He noted they include representatives from the New York police
department, as well as the military.

Several veterans service organizations will also be joining in the parade, The Hill reports.

American Veterans, Disabled American Veterans and Wounded Warriors
are among the groups participating, according to the website which
attributes the information to Trump’s inaugural committee.

These groups weren’t at Barack Obama’s inaugural, which while it had
some veterans, leaned more heavily on Hollywood actors, musicians, and
entertainers.

According to The Hill,
other groups include a cross section including several college and high
school bands, US Border Patrol Pipes & Drums, NYPD Emerald Society
Pipes & Drums, The Freedom Riders, North Carolina Vietnam Helicopter
Pilots Association, and the Boy Scouts of America.
It’ll be good to have a President interested in working for America again…

House
Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., thinks the Obama administration was
justified in retaliating Thursday against Russia with sanctions for
interfering with U.S. institutions. But he said it should’ve been done
long ago.

Far
from a full-throated endorsement of Obama’s actions, Ryan’s statement
condemned the commander in chief for eight years of what he considers
“ineffective foreign policy” that left the United States more vulnerable
than it was when he took office in 2009. Nevertheless, Ryan agreed that
Russia is a threat to global security. (The Obama administration is/was a far a larger threat)

“The 18 months of hacking — why didn’t he do something about it 10 months ago? It never would have happened,” said Mr. Giuliani, a top ally of Mr. Trump.

“There’s a certain pettiness that I hadn’t seen before,” he said.

“To do this after 18 months when you could have prevented it 10 months ago, to double-cross Israel in [the] last hours of his administration, after pretending he was a friend of Israel — which no one believed,” he said.

“To do those two things, to basically reduce the leverage of the next president,” Mr. Giuliani said.

A friend called me tonight after watching the TV "news" and told me that
Comrade Obama was imposing more sanctions on Russia to their alleged
plot to influence the US elections. Knowing Obama, such an action comes
as no real surprise.

Having watched his actions in the past month I am convinced that he is
in the process of trying to throw a monkey wrench into whatever gears of
normal government may still remain in Washington. He wants, as do his
bosses in the Ruling Establishment, to hand Trump the proverbial "hell
in a hand basket" when he takes office. And part of that hell may be
starting a war with the Russians. After all, it's what Hillary wanted to
do and now that she seems to have been put aside, at least temporarily,
Obama has got to do the whole chore on his own. Of course he will have
plenty of guidance in the effort from those above him. A war with Russia
that he could pass along to Trump would be his last great coup--sort of
a "I'll spit in your eye" kind of departure. Somewhat akin to "dancing
on your grave!"

The Petersburg National Battlefield, a climactic site in the collapse of the
Confederacy in the Civil War, has been cleared for a huge expansion
under a new law that would authorize it to become the nation’s largest
protected battlefield.

The park
commemorates sites in the war’s longest battlefield conflict, marked by
bursts of bloody trench warfare spanning some 10 months between 1864 and
1865.

“Democracy is now in crisis,” he wrote in a Project Syndicate op-ed Wednesday. "Even the U.S., the world’s leading democracy, elected a con artist and would-be dictator as its president.”

“Although
Trump has toned down his rhetoric since he was elected, he has changed
neither his behavior nor his advisers,” added Soros, a business magnate
and Holocaust survivor. "His Cabinet comprises incompetent extremists
and retired generals.”

The waning days of the Obama Administration have revealed what has
always been evident, had the fake news media not covered it up and
Democrats had not supported it: Barack Obama is a Muslim, who was
elected president on the basis of a fake birth certificate. Everything
he has done in office is a fraud and should be thrown out immediately
upon the assumption of power by Donald Trump.

While I have always believed this, it was not too much of an issue with
me, since the real problem was and is the fact that the un-American
Democrats elected him, the anti-American media covered up his real
agenda and the globalist Republicans refused to make it an issue. It is
not the fraud of Barack Obama that is the problem, it is that there are
so many enemies within the populace that allowed it, encouraged it and
continue to support it.

So, I have always engaged the real problem, not the symptom of Barack
Obama. George Soros is more of a threat to internal peace than Barack
Obama. Obama is largely a failure on any number of issues. He did not
destroy the United States of America; he did not inspire the race war he
so desperately sought; he did not subjugate the United States to the
United Nations. All he has done is a lot of my work for me.

The Obama administration is using a taxpayer-funded program to
award business grants to Salvadoran migrants deported from the United
States.

Run by the nonprofit Instituto Salvadorno Del Migrante and funded
through a $50,000 grant from the taxpayer-backed Inter-American
Foundation, the program “facilitates [deportees’] reintegration into
their communities and supports their enterprises by offering financial
education, technical advice, and assistance with business plans.”

“So, if you break the rules and get deported, we’ll help you start a
business back in your home country. How absurd,” said Sen. Rand Paul,
R-Ky.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.